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Watch live: Senate convenes Medicaid hearing as work requirements face scrutiny
Health experts on Tuesday morning will testify before the Senate Budget Committee on Medicaid, just months after the Trump administration issued a new rule requiring states to implement work requirements before approving residents for the low-income insurance program. The long-anticipated update guides 42 states and the District of Columbia in carrying out the work rules implemented by President Trump’s One…
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World’s oldest president reshuffles army as his absence stokes unease
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 93, has reshuffled the country’s military, appointing new officials to key army positions and promoting five colonels to brigadier general, amid mounting unease over his prolonged absence from the country. Biya has not appeared in public for nearly two months and has been staying in Geneva, Switzerland, since leaving Cameroon on…
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DSA is Democrat base, co-chair says
Megan Romer, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), said Monday that the organization’s members make up the base of the Democratic Party. Romer was pressed by NewsNation’s “Cuomo” on DSA’s role in the Michigan Senate race. Progressive Abdul El-Sayed is set to face off against moderate Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who Democrats…
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Live updates: Blanche nomination goes up for Senate Judiciary vote
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will face a Senate Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday morning to advance his nomination for the permanent job. The vote comes a week after a previous one was canceled as GOP Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) said they could not vote in Blanche’s favor. Cornyn secured a deal…
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Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
An independent congressional candidate in Tennessee has been charged with four felony counts of vandalism after allegedly shooting four automated licence plate reader (ALPR) cameras, including at least one made by Flock, over a nine-day period in July 2026. The case is notable both because the suspect is running for federal office and because it…
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David Squires on … Gianni Infantino clinging to power as his Fifa empire crumbles
The Guardian’s cartoonist David Squires has published a satirical strip imagining behind-the-scenes crisis talks at Fifa, as president Gianni Infantino faces mounting pressure amid what the piece characterises as a “botched World Cup plan”. The cartoon uses humour to comment on Infantino’s efforts to shore up support as controversies engulf football’s governing body, reflecting broader…
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Trump’s tariffs are his biggest policy failure
President Trump’s tariff policies have faced criticism for failing to reduce the trade deficit, hurting U.S. businesses, and providing insufficient revenue to offset the federal deficit.
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Ministers to expand digital rail ticketing app trials as part of crackdown on fare dodgers costing industry £400 million a year
The UK government plans to widen trials of digital rail ticketing apps as part of a broader effort to tackle fare evasion, which is estimated to cost the rail industry around £400 million a year. Ministers see the expanded rollout of app-based and contactless ticketing as a way to make it easier for passengers to…
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Wenger and Infantino’s No 2 Grafström criticise ‘sad and reproachable’ World Cup plan
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has faced further criticism from within his own organisation after secretary general Mattias Grafström described the failed World Cup private investment scheme as a “sad and reproachable series of events”. Arsène Wenger, Fifa’s chief of global development, also broke his silence to say the plan’s withdrawal was “absolutely necessary and beyond…
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Dressed to run the country? PM’s de facto deputy ‘Red Lou’ Haigh turns up for work (in scuffed-up trainers) as she’s left as most senior minister in UK while Burnham takes a family holiday
Louise Haigh, nicknamed “Red Lou,” has been left as the UK’s most senior minister after Prime Minister Andy Burnham departed for a family holiday abroad only two weeks into his premiership. Haigh was pictured arriving for work in scuffed trainers, and the timing of Burnham’s trip has drawn criticism, with the break being dubbed “Bunk…